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twitter.com 5mo ago

Levelsio: HN is more negative lately because of AI threat

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swissdevjobs.ch 1y ago

The documentation will not write itself

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devitjobs.com 1y ago

Show HN: Software Developer salaries in the US: average, median and percentiles

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devitjobs.uk 1y ago

Show HN: 2024 Non-FAANG Software Engineer Salary distribution in the UK

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climate.stripe.com 2y ago

DevITJobs Contribution to Stripe Climate

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old.reddit.com 2y ago

Chrome appears to be throttling Adblock users

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Germany and Switzerland IT Job Market 12,500 Survey answers, 6,300 Salaries

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static.swissdevjobs.ch 2y ago

Show HN: 2023 Swiss IT Job Market Report [pdf]

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static.germantechjobs.de 2y ago

Show HN: Transparent DACH IT Job Market Report [pdf]

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swissdevjobs.ch 3y ago

Show HN: Software Developer salaries in Switzerland: average and percentiles

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germantechjobs.de 3y ago

Show HN: Software Developer salaries in Germany by technology and city

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germantechjobs.de 3y ago

How to find a job as Software Developer in Germany? (step-by-step guide)

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github.com 3y ago

Webpack production issue that will break half of the internet

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What information are you missing in job ads?

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www.githubunwrapped.com 3y ago

GitHubUnwrapped

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swissdevjobs.ch 3y ago

Show HN: How to find a job as Software Developer in Switzerland? (step by step)

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static.swissdevjobs.ch 3y ago

Show HN: Transparent IT Job Market Report 2022 – Switzerland [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Any Good Prerender.io Alternatives?

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devitjobs.uk 4y ago

How to Get a Job as a Software Developer in the UK After Brexit (Guide)

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devitjobs.uk 4y ago

Show HN: Over 500 tech roles with mandatory salary range and tech stacks

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swissdevjobs.ch 4y ago

Show HN: How to find a job as a Software Engineer in Switzerland (Guide) (2019)

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devitjobs.uk 4y ago

Show HN: DevITjobs – a StackOverflow Jobs alternative with required salary data

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germantechjobs.de 5y ago

How to find a job as Software Developer in Germany

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dev.to 6y ago

Show HN: How we decreased website loading time by 24% with 3 improvements

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paulstamatiou.com 6y ago

Getting Started with Security Keys - A Primer on Your Web Security

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swissdevjobs.ch 6y ago

Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers

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www.businessfondue.com 7y ago

Many Swiss farmers use honor system to sell their products

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swissdevjobs.ch 7y ago

Show HN: How to Find a Job as a Software Developer in Switzerland – Guide

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Then perhaps it should be said openly, that this is an elderly tax, not a pension and it should be just kept to the minimum, allowing people to save more of their own income for their own private pension.

Currently, it's the worst of both worlds: you get taxed quite a significant portion of your income, and then, in the middle of the game, someone changes the rules and tells you to play longer in order to get the prize.

While I agree with the post author on the "if I pay the subscription then there should be no ads" part, there is a bit that comes fairly often in such posts which I find rather funny: "sell my data to your advertisers"

Sorry, that's not how 90% of digital advertising works. The company doesn't sell your data, they just offer some other companies to put an ad in front of your screen based on some specific profiling.

But these ads companies don't receive a file called "Manuel Moreale personal data and shopping history"

Gemini AI 3 years ago

I bet that it will land on Google's graveyard before it gets released worldwide.

Protip:

If you have a low volume of high amount transactions, skip the fancy Fintech (Mafia) companies and just use a good old bank account.

The international wire transfer fee is on par or sometimes even lower than Stripe transaction fee and once the money is transferred, it's yours.

Speaking from my own perspective of running general tech job boards [1], I would say that too narrow job boards have a really short lifespan.

This is because, you need a good supply of fresh offers to keep the audience. So if you end up to niche, you quickly become a job-ad-graveryard. Unless you scrap other big job sites automatically and somehow manage to filter and classify the jobs based on your niche.

[1] https://devitjobs.uk and https://devitjobs.us

It's quite ironic that the recent centralization and cloudarisation of the Internet (& electronic devices).

When everything was local and private, the attacker could only access a specific device or network, even if the security was often very weak. Now a single attack on a centralized entity has such a big payoff, that it makes if viable to allocate much bigger resources by attackers.

My biggest disappointment is that the product seems to be centered around recording/taking pictures and no AR features are advertised.

The big question is what kind of development platform will it provide.

The right to work 100% from home is what really makes sense, because only then people can pick their place of living freely.

This way, we could actually improve the housing situation across the country, because otherwise, it all concentrates in the biggest cities.

Why I Left Rust 3 years ago

Never understood the childish fighting between languages, libraries within a language or as here different viewpoints.

I mean, it's good to discuss different viewpoints, but programming choices is a hill I would never want to die on.